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Clifford Baker

tta_Main.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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  • Clifford Baker on 17 Sep 09
     
    Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success
ten grrl

From the Home Front and the Front Lines (American Treasures Exhibition, Library of Cong... - 0 views

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  • ten grrl on 01 Sep 09
     
    This exhibition consists of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections at the Library of Congress. With an emphasis on World War I (1914-1918), World War II (1939-1945), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1965-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991), the Veterans History Project, by act of Congress, collects and preserves the experiences of America's war veterans and those who supported them.
James Miscavish

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  • James Miscavish on 16 Jul 09
     
    # Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. # Never use a long word where a short one will do. # If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. # Never use the passive where you can use the act
Dana Huff

Bardfilm: The Shakespeare and Film Microblog: The Ten Best Uses of Shakespeare Sonnets ... - 18 views

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  • Dana Huff on 20 May 10
     
    Some of these videos would be great for teaching sonnets, especially if you want students to act them out.
Leslie Healey

The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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  • Stories,
  • stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.
  • nterprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive.
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  • The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.
  • The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life.
  • substantial overlap in the brain networks used to understand stories and the networks used to navigate interactions with other individuals
  • “theory of mind
  • other people’s intenti
  • comparing a plucky young woman to Elizabeth Bennet or a tiresome pedant to Edward Casaubon. Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.
  • Leslie Healey on 18 Mar 12
     
    analysis of impact of reading, novel especially. validates focus on class SSR, even in 11-12th grade (my groups)
Adam Babcock

College Applications Continue to Increase. When Is Enough Enough? - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • “They want you so they can reject you,” says Mr. Stewart, a senior in Burnsville, Minn., who has a 3.5 grade-point average and scored a 27 (out of 36) on the ACT. Those numbers are well below the freshman averages at some of the big-name colleges that sent him applications along with brochures.
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